Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Some Tips and Tricks for using an ObjectDataSource with a Gridview

Some Tips and Tricks for using an ObjectDataSource with a Gr... "This article attempts to show a few tricks with the new Gridview that we have in asp.net 2.0. This article addresses using the ObjectDataSource to populate the Gridview. In this example the ObjectDataSource returns a generic collection of an object. There is some special coding that needs to happen to get the sorting of colums to work. I also show how to use the pager template to do custom navigation. I have also included a simple Gridview printing example." A great reference for using the GridView control with a custom ObjectDataSource so you can do your own paging and sorting; an absolute must when working with large data sets.

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